Netflix Orders ‘The Corrections’ Series Starring Meryl Streep
According to the CinemaDrame News Agency, Netflix has acquired the rights to produce the series “The Corrections,” an adaptation of Jonathan Franzen’s 2001 bestselling novel, featuring three-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep in the lead role. Franzen is adapting the book himself for the screen, while Oscar winner Cord Jefferson is set to direct all episodes of this limited drama from Paramount Television Studios. The project has received a straight-to-series order.
Franzen’s National Book Award-winning novel provides a sharp and comedic portrait of a Midwestern family. The story follows three adult children, each entangled in their own unrealistic ambitions, as they struggle to resist their mother Enid’s (Meryl Streep) desire for one last Christmas together.
Meryl Streep will serve as both lead actress and executive producer alongside Franzen, Cord Jefferson, Mark Roybal (Task, Mare of Easttown), and Paul Lee (Task, The Summer I Turned Pretty) for wiip. Nicole Clemens, the former president of Paramount Television Studios, is also involved as an executive producer.
Netflix secured the series following an intense bidding war, and it is considered part of the platform’s prestige drama series slate. Under the management of Jinny Howe and the supervision of Nora Skinner, Netflix has aimed to expand this prestige segment.
Previous projects included in this prestige initiative are Rabbit, Rabbit starring Adam Driver, Enigma Variations starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Black Hole based on the Charles Burns franchise.
In 2012, HBO commissioned a pilot for an adaptation of “The Corrections,” developed by Noah Baumbach, Franzen, and Scott Rudin. Although that pilot featured a stellar cast including Chris Cooper, Dianne Wiest, Ewan McGregor, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Rhys Ifans, and Greta Gerwig, it did not move forward to full production.
This marks Meryl Streep’s third lead role in a television limited series; she previously won Emmys for Holocaust (NBC) and Angels In America (HBO), and received nominations for her supporting roles in Big Little Lies and Only Murders In The Building.
Cord Jefferson, an Oscar and BAFTA winner for the screenplay of American Fiction, also shared an Emmy for the limited series Watchmen with Damon Lindelof.
Meryl Streep is also set to reprise her role as Miranda Priestly in the film The Devil Wears Prada 2, which will be released on May 1. Franzen is represented by Rich Green at The Gotham Group and Susan Golomb at Writers House.
